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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Reputation, Strategy, and Emotion Effects on Generative AI Cooperation: A Comparison Across Reasoning and Non-Reasoning Models

Celso de Melo, Zishan Feng, James Hale +3

As generative AI (Gen AI) systems take on increasingly autonomous roles in economically and socially consequential interactions, understanding their propensity to cooperate -- and…

cs.HC2026

AI Mediators Regulate Emotion and Create Value in Disputes

James Hale, Jonathan Gratch

In conflict and disputes, especially, emotion acts as a salient force in influencing outcomes. Prior work shows negative affect can obstruct collaborative behaviors, which typicall…

cs.AI2026

Can LLMs Truly Embody Human Personality? Analyzing AI and Human Behavior Alignment in Dispute Resolution

Deuksin Kwon, Kaleen Shrestha, Bin Han +5

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human behavior in social settings such as legal mediation, negotiation, and dispute resolution. However, it remains u…

cs.CL2025

Emotionally-Aware Agents for Dispute Resolution

Sushrita Rakshit, James Hale, Kushal Chawla +2

In conflict, people use emotional expressions to shape their counterparts' thoughts, feelings, and actions. This paper explores whether automatic text emotion recognition offers in…

cs.CL2025

KODIS: A Multicultural Dispute Resolution Dialogue Corpus

James Hale, Sushrita Rakshit, Kushal Chawla +2

We present KODIS, a dyadic dispute resolution corpus containing thousands of dialogues from over 75 countries. Motivated by a theoretical model of culture and conflict, participant…

cs.CL2021

Building on Huang et al. GlossBERT for Word Sense Disambiguation

Nikhil Patel, James Hale, Kanika Jindal +2

We propose to take on the problem ofWord Sense Disambiguation (WSD). In language, words of the same form can take different meanings depending on context. While humans easily infer…